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Ira Fischler

A Brief BioSketch

Born 1947 in Elizabeth, New Jersey
BA in Psychology from Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1969
MA & PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1973
On the faculty of Psychology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, since 1973
Research Fellow, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, 1980-1981
Member of:

UF Brain Institute
UF Center for Neuropsychological Studies
American Psychological Society
Psychonomic Society
Society for Psychophysiological Research
Phi Beta Kappa - Beta chapter of Florida (and Chair of the Membership Committee)

Personal Notes

Married to Diane Ross Fischler, a freelance editor and writer at The Proofing Grounds, and editor at the University of Florida Oral History Project.
...With Children:

Scott - graduate of Univ. of West Florida, BA in Communication, and studying electrical engineering at UCF
Working for Itec Entertainment as an Engineering Associate, and consultant with Omni NewMedia on web-based projects
Matthew - graduate of Univ. of Florida, BS Electrical Engineering, and UC Santa Cruz, MS, Computer Engineering
Working for Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego as a senior engineer
Kelly - graduate of Univ. of Florida, BS in Environmental Sciences, MS in Soil Science
Working for the St. Johns Water Management District as Environmental Scientist

Hobbies include music, cycling, home maintenance, and travelling the US and studying American history with my wife

Research Interests and Activities

Human memory
Attention and automaticity
event-related brain potentials in cognition
emotion and attention
Simulation and learning in medical education
COGEXP 2.0: A program for implementing a wide range of experiments involving presenting verbal materials on a PC and recording responses and response times. This was developed in 2004 at UF for several research projects, and continues to be debugged and expanded. CogExp 2.0 was written in Visual Basic 2005, using Visual Studio and the .NET framework. To install it, download the zipped file below. Unzip the application and run the setup.exe program on your machine; it will install the CogExp application, and add a shortcut under Start / All Programs / University of Florida.

Teaching Activities

A sampler of courses I've taught at UF (current courses in boldface; those with Web pages have hyperlinks):

Undergraduate level Courses:

Graduate Level Courses: